Arsenal’s players have not yet given Santi Cazorla a nickname. The sobriquet
the little wizard was given while at Villarreal — Paquirrin, because of his
passing resemblance to an indolent, Z-list celebrity of that name — does not
quite fit, particularly as the word has come to mean “Tubby” in his
homeland.

So when, after watching the Spaniard cast his spell over his first North
London derby, with the blood still pumping from a merciless rout of
Tottenham Hotspur, Jack Wilshere was asked for a suggestion, he was
momentarily at a loss. Then the perfect moniker came to mind. “Maradona,”
smiled the